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The bulk of the Labadists journeyed northwards with no certain destination in mind but confident that God would provide. We may presume that they headed for Bremen, the nearest port, and that progress was slow because of the many aged and infirm among them. At some point on their trek, they heard mention of the town of Altona in Holstein, and that it enjoyed a good degree of religious tolerance. So it was thither that the Labadists headed, arriving on 4 July 1672.1)
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Christiaan Huygens, Oeuvres completes 7, p. 234 (The Hague, 1899); RGP, grote serie 32 (1917), 317. On 3 March 1673 Constantijn again requested whatever confessions Lady Swann could extract from ‘your ancient Sybille’ (Anna van Schurman) - ibid., p. 323.
S. van der Linde, ‘Anna Maria van Schurman en haar Eucleria’, Theologia Reformata (Woerden) 21 (1978), 120.
Original reproduced in D. Winsemius, Het grote geheim van Anna Maria van Schurman, 2nd. edn., Kampen, 1979, pp. 320, 321, from which we also learn that Dulignon was now the father of a son, Jean Benjamin.
J. Lieboldt, ‘Jean de Labadies Bestattung in Altona’, Mitteilungen, Verein fur hamburgische Geschichte 23 (1903), 208.
Cited by J. Gierlinger, ‘Jean de Labadie und die Labadisten’, Amtsblatt der Stadt Altona, vol.8, no.26 (1928), 2; see Appendix 1:95.
3/13 July, 12/22 August, 10 November, 22 December 1674; 9/19 February, 19/29 April 1675. Full details in Johannes Wallmann, Philipp Jakob Spener und die Anfänge des Pietismus (Tübingen, 1970), 290–306.
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Saxby, T.J. (1987). ‘The Garden in Flower’, Labadie at Altona, 1672–1674. In: The Quest for the New Jerusalem, Jean de Labadie and the Labadists, 1610–1744. Archives internationales d’histoire des idees/International Archives of the History of Ideas, vol 115. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3567-9_10
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